File Vainakh social organization scheme.JPG thumb 350 right Vainakh social organization scheme. Tukkhum an alliance of teip s, unrelated by blood but united in a higher association for the joint solution of common problems the protection from enemy attack and economic exchange. Tukhums occupied a specific territory, which consisted of them actually populated areas, as well as the surrounding area, where the teip s, which were part of tukhums, engaged in hunting, farming and cattle breeding. Each tukhum spoke their own dialect of the Nakh languages Vainakh language . Tukhums, in contrast to the teip s, had no official head or commander lang ce byacha . Thus tukhums was not so much body control as a social organization. Deliberative tukhums was the Council of Elders, which consisted of representatives of all the teip s, were part of this tukhums, on an equal footing. Council of Elders would convene to address inter teip disputes and differences, to protect the interests of the individual teip s, and tukhums in general. Council of Elders had the right to declare war, conclude peace, to negotiate with the help of their own and others ambassadors, make alliances and break them. Tukhums were not consanguineous union, but a kind of brotherhood. It is a formation that emerged from the tribal organization. This alliance, and or the association of several teip s one and the same tribe, established for specific purposes ref name mamakaev . . , 1973. . . . . , . 352 . 1996 ISBN 5 87553 005 7 ref . The tribal union of tukkhums forms the Kham or the whole Chechen people Chechen nation . During the 16th and 17th centuries nine tukkhums, composed of separate teip s were formed in Chechnya , At the moment, the Chechen people Chechens are united ... culture Category Nakh peoples be x old ca Tukkhum fr Toukkhoum nl Toekchoem ru uk ... more details
and the tukkhum membership defined the social position of a Chechen. The lack of any affiliation of a person can be described as This man has neither a teip nor a tukkhum . There are 223 teips total ... List of teips Below is a list of teips with the tukkhum to which it belongs, a short description, relation to the History of Chechnya Russian Chechen conflict and notable members Akkiy tukkhum lang ru Myalkiy tukkhum lang ru Nokhchmakhkakhoy tukkhum lang ru Beltagoy ... teip with roughly 36,000 members. Sometimes referred to as a sort of sub tukkhum. Biltoy lang ... eastern teip. Kharachoi lang ru Yalkhoi lang ru . Orstkhoi Ershtkhoy tukkhum lang ru Zandaqoi Terloy tukkhum lang ru Beshni lang ru , a highland south eastern .... Chantiy tukkhum lang ru Chanti lang ru Cheberloy Chebarloy, Chebarloj tukkhum lang ru Rigakhoy lang ru Buni lang ru Sharoy tukkhum lang ru Shotoy tukkhum ... to Russian accounts. Tukkhum is not known Chinnakhoy lang ru Marshaloy lang ru ... by peoples who are now in fact extinct in Dagestan . Most ethnic teips are not incorporated into Tukkhum ... tribal unions and clans A complete list of all Chechen Teips. See also Tukkhum History of Chechnya ... more details
scheme. Social Structure Main Teip Tukkhum Traditionally Nakh peoples known as a society with a highly ... on number of houses. Most teips made unions called Tukkhum . Tukkhum is a military economic or military .... Teips counsil of elders choose one or several people to submit their Teip in Tukkhum Khelli Counsil of Tukkhum . New Teip were taken in tukhums depending on its geographical location and on depends on the harmonization of Tukkhum Counsil Elders. Joining a Tukhum depended on desire of the Teip itself. No one could force a teip to join a Tukkhum. To address issues of national scale worked Mexk Khel, the People s Council. Representatives of the Council were elected by each Tukkhum Counsil and had ... is not solved in Teip council could move to Tukkhum counsil and further even to Mekhk Khel. That was called ... Nakh languages something resembling Kham File Sharoi1800.jpg thumb left 250px Sharoi Tukkhum capital ... more details